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Political Science

Miller Benjamin, Rubinovitz Ziv

ISBN: PB: 9780226735016, ISBN: HB: 9780226734965, University of Chicago Press, October 2020
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 21 tables

American foreign policy is the subject of extensive debate. Many look to domestic factors as the driving forces of bad policies. Benjamin Miller instead seeks to account for changes in US international strategy by developing a theory of grand strateg...

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Fiction

Glossary for the End of Days Stories

Stansel Ian

ISBN: PB: 9781946724342, University of Chicago Press, Acre Books, September 2020
208 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Following his acclaimed debut novel, The Last Cowboys of San Geronimo, the eleven stories of Ian Stansel's Glossary for the End of Days explore today's cultural and political climate with a disarming blend of speculation and realism. Whether faced wi...

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Poetry

Grimoire

Sherrard Cherene

ISBN: PB: 9781938769603, University of Chicago Press, Autumn House Press, September 2020
80 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Named after a magical textbook, Cherene Sherrard's Grimoire is a poetry collection centered on the recovery and preservation of ancestral knowledge and on the exploration of black motherhood. Incorporating experiences of food preparation, childrearin...

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Philosophy

Georg Simmel Essays on Art and Aesthetics

Simmel Georg

ISBN: PB: 9780226621098, ISBN: HB: 9780226620930, University of Chicago Press, July 2020
392 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Georg Simmel is one of the most original German thinkers of the twentieth century and is considered a founding architect of the modern discipline of sociology. Ranging over fundamental questions of the relationship of self and society, his influentia...

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Fiction

Grace for Grace Stories

De Jarnatt Steve

ISBN: PB: 9781946724304, University of Chicago Press, Acre Books, April 2020
192 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm

"Grace for Grace" brings celebrated cult filmmaker Steve De Jarnatt's distinctive voice and cinematic vision to the page. Lush inner lives, idiosyncratic syntax, and sweeping scale characterize these wildly imaginative stories, which present characte...

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Sport

Travel

Guide to Peril Strait and Wrangell Narrows, Alaska

Hopkins William Morgan

ISBN: PB: 9781602234000, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, April 2020
150 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 6 maps, 5 charts, 10 halftones

Learning how to pilot a ship through Wrangell Narrows and Peril Strait is not an easy matter for a vessel operator new to the area, or even for those with experience. It takes time, patience, and a certain appetite for risk. The older generation of c...

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Poetry

Gutter Spread Guide to Prayer

Tran Eric

ISBN: PB: 9781938769511, University of Chicago Press, Autumn House Press, March 2020
72 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

In "The Gutter Spread Guide to Prayer", Eric Tran contends with the aftermath of a close friend's suicide while he simultaneously explores the complexities of being a gay man of color. Grief opens into unraveling circles of inquiry as Tran reflects o...

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Philosophy

Geschlecht III Sex, Race, Nation, Humanity

Derrida Jacques

ISBN: HB: 9780226677460, University of Chicago Press, March 2020
168 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm

A significant event in Derrida scholarship, this book marks the first publication of his long-lost philosophical text known only as "Geschlecht III". The third, and arguably the most significant, piece in his four-part Geschlecht series, it fills a g...

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Education

General

Ghosts in the Schoolyard Racism and School Closings on Chicago's South Side

Ewing Eve L.

ISBN: PB: 9780226526164, ISBN: HB: 9780226526027, University of Chicago Press, March 2020
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 halftones, 1 line drawing, 5 tables

"Failing schools. Underprivileged schools. Just plain bad schools". That's how Eve L. Ewing opens "Ghosts in the Schoolyard": describing Chicago Public Schools from the outside. The way politicians and pundits and parents of kids who attend other sc...

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Literary Criticism

Glass, Light, and Electricity Essays

McAuliffe Shena

ISBN: PB: 9781602234086, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, February 2020
200 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Fleet-footed and capricious, the essays in "Glass, Light & Electricity" wander through landscapes both familiar and unfamiliar, finding them equal parts magical and toxic. They explore and merge public and private history through lyric meditations th...

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